Donate

never asked for donations over a blog before...but i would like to now...

brian seay and his family are in africa with their large family and are unable to get home because of some paperwork...they have been there for 3 weeks already...you can read about it here and here...candi and i are going to donate some money to help them cover the costs of having to stay in ethiopia another week and would like you to consider doing the same...

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Update, Funny Stuff and a Beautiful Act

first off...sorry for the long delay since our last post...we have been gearing up for baby boy #3 (and no, we will not be telling his name until he gets here)...ollie and otto are both excited about the new arrival...we are anxious about the transition to 3 kids, but candi is ready to have her body back from our little parasite so here we go...we are planning on having the baby on feb. 17th and are hoping to have plenty of gigi and mimi love, but if you have time and have a knack for entertaining toddlers, you are more than welcome to come stay with us for a while...

ollie has said a bunch of funny things the last couple of weeks, here are some highlights:

1. he and anna, the little girl who lives next door, play together pretty much every afternoon...they play very well together as they are both very expressive and vivid imaginations...sometime over christmas, anna and her family watched "the grinch"...shortly after that, anna apparently described the grinch to ollie, and he got scared...i mean "too scared to go to bathroom during the day by himself" kind of scared...he didn't want to encounter the yellow-eyed, pointy teethed fellow that his playmate had innocently planted a vision of in his little mind...anyway, the other night, about an hour after he gone to bed...ollie comes walking into the living room where candi and i were enjoying the best the networks can offer, and quietly says "somefing in my head tells me that the grinch is not pretend."...love it

2. the night of the inauguration i was watching "the neighborhood ball"...let me just say, i have tons of respect for our new president, politics aside, but the one glimpse that the public got to see of the party introducing the nation to the leader of the free world kind of left me with a bad taste in my mouth...it just wasn't very "presidential"...it looked really fun though!...anyway...the great hip-hop artist "jay-z" was on stage (i really like him btw) when ollie came in and looked at the screen...he studied the performance for a minute and then started to giggle...he said "that guy is so crazy...he's just talking."...i guess our 4 year old is not a hip-hop fan

3. every week at ollie's preschool the kids study a different letter...i'm sure this practice is isolated to the fine academic community here in texarkana...this week the letter "o" takes center stage...they study the letter on monday and tuesday, and then on wednesday comes the highlight of our preschooler's life...show and tell...he gets pumped about finding something around the house that he can show off to his buddies...candi picked him up a few minutes ago and started the weekly quiz...candi: "buddy, what letter are you learning this week?" olllie: "o" candi: "what words start with o?" ollie: "octopus, octagon, and you know what else??? me!...oh...i can bring myself to show and tell...won't that be crazy?!"

also...if you have time, head over to my old friend brian seay's blog and twitter updates to read about his family's international adoption...brian and amy adopted 2 older siblings from ethiopia...they packed up their 4 other kids and went to africa to bring home their newest family members...i'm not sure how much longer they are going to be there, but i love reading the twitter updates and blog posts...i have always been fascinated by adoption...just a beautiful picture of redemption...

one more thing...kap and wendy mcwhorter had their little baby about six weeks early and he has been in icu...he is doing better, but is still in the hospital...say a little prayer for baby max when you get a chance!

thanks for reading this insanely long post...and putting up with my crazy punctuation...

-jj